c# - content from a website in a text file -

my aim content website (for instance league table sports website) , put in .txt file can code local file.

i have tried multiple lines of code , others examples such as:

// prepare web page asking     httpwebrequest request = (httpwebrequest)         webrequest.create("http://www.stackoverflow.com"); // prepare web page asking     httpwebrequest request = (httpwebrequest)         webrequest.create("http://www.stackoverflow.com");      // execute request     httpwebresponse response = (httpwebresponse)request.getresponse();      // read data via response stream     stream resstream = response.getresponsestream();      string tempstring = null;     int count = 0;         {         // fill buffer data         count = resstream.read(buf, 0, buf.length);          // make sure read data             if (count != 0)         {         // translate bytes ascii text         tempstring = encoding.ascii.getstring(buf, 0, count);          // continue building string         sb.append(tempstring);         }     while (count > 0); // more data read?     } 

my issue when trying this, words request , response underlined in read , tokens invalid. there better method content website .txt file or there way fix code supplied?

thanks

is there way fix code supplied?

the code submitted works me, make sure have proper name spaces defined. in case : using system.net;

or might duplicate creation of variable request isn't typo? if remove 1 of request variables.

is there better method content website .txt file

since you're reading content site anyway there isn't need while loop. instead can use readtoend method supplied streamreader.

string sitecontent = "";     using (streamreader reader = new streamreader(resstream)) {    sitecontent = reader.readtoend(); } 

also sure dispose of webresponse, other code should work fine.